The Sleeper Lyrics

Song	The Sleeper
Artist	Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
Album	Poetica
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[01:46.24]	At midnight, in the month of June,
[01:54.16]	I stand beneath the mystic moon.
[02:01.42]	An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
[02:09.07]	Exhales from out her golden rim,
[02:17.11]	And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
[02:24.49]	Upon the quiet mountain top,
[02:30.34]	Steals drowsily and musically
[02:38.27]	Into the universal valley.
[03:20.23]	The rosemary nods upon the grave;
[03:27.25]	The lily lolls upon the wave;
[03:35.10]	Wrapping the fog about its breast,
[03:39.57]	The ruin molders into rest;
[03:46.70]	Looking like Lethe, see! the lake
[03:54.08]	A conscious slumber seems to take,
[04:01.67]	And would not, for the world, awake.
[04:09.75]	And would not, for the world, awake.
[04:22.88]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:28.53]	–and lo! where lies
[04:32.50]	With casement open to the skies
[04:38.20]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:40.09]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:43.91]	–and lo! where lies
[04:47.74]	With casement open to the skies
[05:01.85]	Oh, lover bright! can it be right-
[05:09.44]	This window open to the night?
[05:16.87]	The wanton airs, from the tree-top,
[05:25.27]	Laughingly through the lattice drop-
[05:31.83]	The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,
[05:39.41]	Flit through thy chamber in and out,
[05:47.10]	And wave the curtain canopy
[05:54.73]	So fitfully–so carefully-
[06:41.81]	Above the closed and fringed lid
[06:49.29]	'Neath which thy slumb'ring soul lies hid,
[06:56.77]	That, o'er the floor and down the wall,
[07:04.25]	Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!
[07:41.86]	Oh, lover dear, hast thou no fear?
[07:49.28]	Why and what art thou dreaming here?
[07:56.71]	Sure thou art come O'er far-off seas,
[08:04.25]	A wonder to these garden trees!
[08:42.29]	Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress,
[08:49.25]	Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
[09:00.97][08:56.13]	And this all this
[09:04.29]	and solemn silentness!
[09:11.84]	My lover sleeps!
[09:14.70]	Oh, may his sleep,
[09:19.34]	As it is lasting,so be deep!
[09:27.23]	Soft may the worms about his creep!
[09:41.65]	I pray to God that he may lie
[09:49.34]	For ever with unopened eye.

	ti:
	ar:
	al:
[01:46.24]	At midnight, in the month of June,
[01:54.16]	I stand beneath the mystic moon.
[02:01.42]	An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
[02:09.07]	Exhales from out her golden rim,
[02:17.11]	And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
[02:24.49]	Upon the quiet mountain top,
[02:30.34]	Steals drowsily and musically
[02:38.27]	Into the universal valley.
[03:20.23]	The rosemary nods upon the grave
[03:27.25]	The lily lolls upon the wave
[03:35.10]	Wrapping the fog about its breast,
[03:39.57]	The ruin molders into rest
[03:46.70]	Looking like Lethe, see! the lake
[03:54.08]	A conscious slumber seems to take,
[04:01.67]	And would not, for the world, awake.
[04:09.75]	And would not, for the world, awake.
[04:22.88]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:28.53]	and lo! where lies
[04:32.50]	With casement open to the skies
[04:38.20]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:40.09]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:43.91]	and lo! where lies
[04:47.74]	With casement open to the skies
[05:01.85]	Oh, lover bright! can it be right
[05:09.44]	This window open to the night?
[05:16.87]	The wanton airs, from the treetop,
[05:25.27]	Laughingly through the lattice drop
[05:31.83]	The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,
[05:39.41]	Flit through thy chamber in and out,
[05:47.10]	And wave the curtain canopy
[05:54.73]	So fitfully so carefully
[06:41.81]	Above the closed and fringed lid
[06:49.29]	' Neath which thy slumb' ring soul lies hid,
[06:56.77]	That, o' er the floor and down the wall,
[07:04.25]	Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!
[07:41.86]	Oh, lover dear, hast thou no fear?
[07:49.28]	Why and what art thou dreaming here?
[07:56.71]	Sure thou art come O' er faroff seas,
[08:04.25]	A wonder to these garden trees!
[08:42.29]	Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress,
[08:49.25]	Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
[09:00.97][08:56.13]	And this all this
[09:04.29]	and solemn silentness!
[09:11.84]	My lover sleeps!
[09:14.70]	Oh, may his sleep,
[09:19.34]	As it is lasting, so be deep!
[09:27.23]	Soft may the worms about his creep!
[09:41.65]	I pray to God that he may lie
[09:49.34]	For ever with unopened eye.

	ti:
	ar:
	al:
[01:46.24]	At midnight, in the month of June,
[01:54.16]	I stand beneath the mystic moon.
[02:01.42]	An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
[02:09.07]	Exhales from out her golden rim,
[02:17.11]	And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
[02:24.49]	Upon the quiet mountain top,
[02:30.34]	Steals drowsily and musically
[02:38.27]	Into the universal valley.
[03:20.23]	The rosemary nods upon the grave
[03:27.25]	The lily lolls upon the wave
[03:35.10]	Wrapping the fog about its breast,
[03:39.57]	The ruin molders into rest
[03:46.70]	Looking like Lethe, see! the lake
[03:54.08]	A conscious slumber seems to take,
[04:01.67]	And would not, for the world, awake.
[04:09.75]	And would not, for the world, awake.
[04:22.88]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:28.53]	and lo! where lies
[04:32.50]	With casement open to the skies
[04:38.20]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:40.09]	All Beauty sleeps!
[04:43.91]	and lo! where lies
[04:47.74]	With casement open to the skies
[05:01.85]	Oh, lover bright! can it be right
[05:09.44]	This window open to the night?
[05:16.87]	The wanton airs, from the treetop,
[05:25.27]	Laughingly through the lattice drop
[05:31.83]	The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,
[05:39.41]	Flit through thy chamber in and out,
[05:47.10]	And wave the curtain canopy
[05:54.73]	So fitfully so carefully
[06:41.81]	Above the closed and fringed lid
[06:49.29]	' Neath which thy slumb' ring soul lies hid,
[06:56.77]	That, o' er the floor and down the wall,
[07:04.25]	Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!
[07:41.86]	Oh, lover dear, hast thou no fear?
[07:49.28]	Why and what art thou dreaming here?
[07:56.71]	Sure thou art come O' er faroff seas,
[08:04.25]	A wonder to these garden trees!
[08:42.29]	Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress,
[08:49.25]	Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
[09:00.97][08:56.13]	And this all this
[09:04.29]	and solemn silentness!
[09:11.84]	My lover sleeps!
[09:14.70]	Oh, may his sleep,
[09:19.34]	As it is lasting, so be deep!
[09:27.23]	Soft may the worms about his creep!
[09:41.65]	I pray to God that he may lie
[09:49.34]	For ever with unopened eye.

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